Catherine Lloyd is a writer whose haunting first novel The Well, published by Canongate in 2015, was a Richard & Judy book club pick, long-listed for a CWA John Creasey (new blood) Dagger and sold in 12 countries. Her second novel The Half Sister followed three years later. She is also a prize winning poet and short story writer and has had work broadcast by BBC Radio 4.

Catherine has just completed A Child in the Middle, a narrative non-fiction work which brings together her search for her birth family and her professional experience in the arena of care and adoption, gained from decades working with vulnerable young people and their families.